MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
South Georgia implements additional measures to safeguard Marine Protected Area
The United Kingdom Minister for the Overseas Territories Mark Simmonds welcomed the announcement of a set of additional measures to safeguard the sustainable-use Marine Protected Area (MPA) around the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNo matter how no one tries to twist this, this is a case of putting the environment over the economy.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Whose economy, exactly?...and why is that a bad thing? People come and go, we only get one planet. Perhaps you'd rather it be raped of resources?
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1;
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And a very commendable deed too!
Dam that Patagonian Toothfish looks like Crissy Kirchner on a bad day.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps Anglotino was pre-empting the usual rants that will appear later :) I am sure some of the regular posters will try to twist it
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 I was going to suggest the third photo looks quite like a utopia WITHOUT some peronist fascist flag hanging off a flagpole, and without the church having been burned down and replaced with a massive effigy of Nestor for the nestoranity cult to flog themselves in front of.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 06 Shed-time
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It looks beautiful doesn't it?? and what a view!!
I think this is as close to perfection as we are going to get on this Earth.. One day... One day I would love to visit South Georgia and the Falklands.. One day!!
@7 Yes, it looks heavenly in a brown rusty kind of way. No hospital for when you get lockjaw from the grain silo however.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think they were tanks for the whale oil, in which case, the rust suits them.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just dont let CFK and her destroyers near it,
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she will ruin it beauty .
Regarding my first point, I should have been clearer. I totally support this. It is rare that governments close off economic opportunities and lose tax income with actions such as these.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also hard to paint the UK as some rapacious imperial power that is destroying the region from afar.
(Thanks Saphira)
@11, “Also hard to paint the UK as some rapacious imperial power that is destroying the region from afar. ”
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...unless they have something totally evil in store involving that fish. Mounting friggin' lasers on their friggin' heads perhaps? But I'm still waiting for the Squid Launcher from the Falklands to counter Brazil's Piranha Gun.
“Chagos Islanders attack plan to turn archipelago into protected area”
Jan 24th, 2013 - 04:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0“UK government proposals a ploy to block displaced Chagossians from returning to their homeland”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/29/chagos-island-marine-reserve-plans
Thieves need to return stolen land not to turn them into fake protected areas.
Mucus #13
Jan 24th, 2013 - 05:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is difficult to understand what you are actually referencing by your ill-educated post, if you are trying to infer that South Georgia was stolen, please explain, and try to use verifiable facts. If you can’t complete this challenge, you are prejudiced, ignorant, brainwashed or an agent of the Argentine propaganda machine (my guess is the latter but of course you might just be fatuous).
@13 Marcos
Jan 24th, 2013 - 06:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know... I'll jump off topic and post an article that is 3 years old to distract everyone because I lack any ability to argue or even discuss the topic at hand.
Such a ploy will never be seen through and everyone will fail to notice that I am a vacuous simpleton that is so disempowered by a foreign country that I can't envisage my life as complete until I can finally convince someone of the grave injustice that remain hidden from the world by this country.
So I am guessing that you fully support the UK's actions in expelling the Chagossians and denying them the ability to live on the islands with their own culture?
@13;
Jan 24th, 2013 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0WTF are you on?
What did this to your mind?
pirates thieves! liars with this want adjudicate 1000.000 m2!! Pirates thieves!!!
Jan 24th, 2013 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Want...... I'd say got!
Jan 24th, 2013 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0You seem a little slow on the uptake mate.
awa an fling pesh aboot yersel min.
Jan 24th, 2013 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0puerto argentino? I'll puerto argentino you ma lad!!!
@12 Haha nice one
Jan 24th, 2013 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK “The British are militarizing the South Atlantic toothfish”
Ok Marcos I'll bite, how exactly does your claim to South Georgia work? Had an argie even set foot on South Georgia before 1982?
Thought they got a wee contract to take away some scrap metal in 1982.
Jan 24th, 2013 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did they manage to take it away?
Maybe that's the basis of their claim?
Argentine ownership of South Georgia is obvious, just so long as you caqn grasp Argie logic.
Jan 24th, 2013 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In this particular case, the island is theirs because a Norwegian whaler who took a lease from the UK in the early 1900s had an office in Buenos Aries.
Its ok, I have the explanation: Nueva colonia de idiotas descubiertos en la costa este de América del Sur. Parecen tener forma humana, pero el cerebro pequeño. Los intentos de comunicarse fracasado porque son monosylabic.
Jan 24th, 2013 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's useless trying to communicate with them, they can't understand logic, and have no capability to understand history.
17 puerto argentino
Jan 24th, 2013 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's square kilometers, not square meters you argie imbecile.
@22 I have arrived at the very personal view that, when it comes down to it and for whatever reason, the Argentinians believe that Northern Hemisphere countries have no right to own territory in the Southern Hemisphere. Logic doesn't come into it.
Jan 24th, 2013 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 024@
Jan 24th, 2013 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0m2 or Km2 is the same aptitude steal, steal, steal, ...asshole Pirates! You come to me correct Imbecile.
@25
Jan 24th, 2013 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's logic, Jim, but not as we know it.
Interestingly enough, Think himself has recently discarded the pretence of rational argument and resorted to basic knee jerk gringophobia. Faute de mieux, I guess. But then the question is, whether gringophobia is a product of actual, or of local cultural and political considerations.
@27 Indeed, it is Think I have to thank for this personal revelation.
Jan 25th, 2013 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thicko is conspicuous by his absence.
Jan 26th, 2013 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Best he has been able to come up when asked to justify the RG claim to South Georgia has been 'its difficult'.
In any event, it wouldn't be fair to tar all the Malvinistas with the Think brush. Some of them genuinely believe that a terrible injustice was done in 1833 and that the UN and the rest of the world supports their cause. Only the really loopy adduce such peculiar notions as hemispheric allegiance, migrating birds, and seaborne seeds into the mix.
Jan 26th, 2013 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0South Georgia December News & Events just uploaded!
Jan 30th, 2013 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Click link below to read:
- Next Commissioner Announced
- Invasion Of South Georgia - Thatcher’s Worst Moment
- Shipping News
- Worsley’s Almanac Returns To The Island
- Far-flung Jurisdiction Visit
- Mountains - New Stamp Issue
- Bird Island Diary
- South Georgia Snippets
http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/%28h%29South_Georgia_Newsletter%2C_December_2012?useskin=
If link broken, go to homepage and in left frame click on news+events: http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/%28h%29South_Georgia_Newsletter%2C_December_2012?useskin=
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